The Sun. — London, England, 1808-08-23 00:00:00

the bordt-vt of Hindosian, their at'rival in aiiy state to • i.flapted for effeCtive hostilities appears to be next lo impossible; and we have here very little appre h,iiion but that a small part of our excellent army give a good account of them, should they dare proceed forward ; so that we have no great fear of either Bonaparte or his myrmidons ever sailing down Cie Burnampooter or. the Ganges." ** * * We are at present very anxiously looking for rie..ks from England, as our latest public intercourse of I he date of seven months back, a most unusual lapse of time, but which is in some measure attribut able to the great difficulty and frequent miscarriage of overland communication in the present state of Tnr;:ev and Egypt. It is in this deficiency of hear ing from England that (as is here reported) our Go vel nor General has a6ted against the Danish Settle ments and ships, upon the grounds of private infor niati'un of hostilities between the two countries. — The Danish possessions seized by us are, Tranque bar, a very c o nsiderat , le town and distria on the Co romandel Coa3t, 54 wiles from Pondicherry ; and • 1-,;-r,unpore, a faaory which they held by our per-. n:•isston, within six miles of Calcutta, and which served as a sanctuary or place of refuge and protec tion to British debtors, defaulters, and other bad peuple." EKRATUM.—In the article respeaing Sir FRA,NCIS BA. Nc's late 'roast, ‘.hich was incorrectly printed in many of the earlier impressions of 'F HE SUN of yesterday, for /ambo read gumto. Az, IV ED-1 Gottenburgh, t Heligoland, r famaica, t New- I Dublin, t W:,tettord. D uottenburgn, r Dublin, t Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols _ _ - - - 6s: FRE SUN. QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT? L 0 N D 0 iV , TUZSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1808. We feel ti - 1::; most .incere satisfaction in acquaint, ing our Reaaers, that a Telegraphic Dispatch reached the Admiralty this day at twelve o'clock, announcing' tlie welcome intelligence that Admiral KEATES had received on board several thousand Spanish Troops from the Island of Langeland, a small Island in the Baltic, bctwecn Laaland and Funen. We received this morning American Papers to the 20th ult. : they are principally filled with Stric tures upon the Embargo, some of which we have ex t raaecl. Is adverting yesterday to a Pamphlet, purporting to be a " Plain Statement of the Gandua of the Ministry and the. Opposition towards Hii Royal Highness the Duke of ).Tortic," we expressed our'decideci opinion, from the perusal of the Pam phlet itself, that it had been published without the concurrence or knowledge of his Royal Highness. We now find'on inquiry in the proper channel, that our opinion is justified by the faet, and we have authority to say, that the whole is the mere fabrication of some anonymous writer. The French and Dutch Papers are under such severe discipline, that they dare not insert any ac count of the real state of affairs in Spain, though they are permitted to confess that some trifling dis turbances have taken place in the Southern Pro vinces.—Not a syllable have they yet presumed to admit ,respeeting the surrender of the French Fleet at Ca:liz, or of DurosT's Army. It is needless for us to say, that nothing can more strongly manifest the fears of the French Usurper lest his failure in Spain should L 2. known in France and the other Countries under his controul, than his folly in sup posing that it can possibly be concealed. He has certainly able men in his service, but it is evident that he- himself is a weak vain man, intoxicated by success, and giddy by his elevation, and that Le is formidable by his powers, not by his talents. Another Foot' of his obstinate stupidity is in his persevering attempts upon Spain, after all his dis coinfi:ures, and atter the Spaniards have gained in crea,,ed confidence by their success, and increased military knowledge by their experience. Yet he has rashly deprived MURAT of his Dukeship, in or der to raise him to the throne of Naples, when he had s o • it a prospea of filLing poor Jussrft on that o f Spaiu. The Corsican Tyrant, however, seems Tesplved to persevere in his attempts to spread bondage over Spain, and is sending troups from all quarters towards that, country, where we trust they will meet, from the aroused vengeance of an united people, that fate which DUPONT'S and MoNceY's troops have endured, if not a worse, if they are so absurd as to second the rash designs of their arro gant Master. 'The French who go on this des perate service must be dispirited by the disasters which their predecessors iu the same infamous cause have surered, and the Spaniards must pro portionably rise in vigour, and increase in mili tary knowledge. Besides, the mind of ?A EtTE must be,distraaed by the various ditEcUlties of his situation ; and he has to guard against the probable hostility of other Powers. Austria is all bide and aetivity, and is preparing a very formida, i;.e army ; and it is impossible that when the Rus- i sian Emperor is folly apprized of all that has hap pened in Spain, and duly rcile&s upon the conduct . Of BUONAPARTE towards that Country and its Royal Family, he should wish to continue upon an ap pearance of amity with such an unprincipled Despot, longer than policy may require, or that he should lend him any assistance N swards the destrudlion of Austria, and thereby only accelerate the ruin of himself. Upon the whole, even if the Powers who form the Confederation of the Rhitre should remain in dis graceful vassallage to the Tyrant, they must, by the natural operation of events, be more languid in his cause. They must see that the spell is broken which seemed to insure success to him, and that while he has rendered himself still more detestable in the eyes of mankind, he has become also, by his absurd attempt and disgraceful miscarriage in Spain, an ob ' Jed of their contempt and derision. On Sunday evening their MAJP.STIES and 'the PRINCESSES walked on Windsor Terrace, accom panied by Ladies TtivrTr:E and • MURRAY, Lord JMULGRAVE, Generals CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY, and a numerous assemblage of very genteel com pany. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses SO' PHIA, AUGUSTA, and AU ELIA, accompanied by Lady MURRAY, Generals .CARTWRIGHT, and FITZROY, rode in Windsor Park, and returned to the Palace at twelve. Capt. COLUMBINE, one of the Commissioners of the Chart Committee, at the Admiralty, is appoint ed to his Majesty's Ship Stately, and will shady sail to the West Indies. General SPENCER, landed at a point more southerly than Sir A. WELLESLEY ;-1)e landed at . Marra. General ASSTIWTIIER has also landed, but it teas not till the 12th. Lord Jocr,LyN embarks on board the Success Fri gate, at Portsmouth, for Spain. He is entrusted with an important mission to the Junta at Saville, Several waggons loaded with money arrived at the Bank yesterday, 'from Portsmouth. A Gentleman who recently arrived in this Coun try from Paris, by the way of Holland, states, that BUONAPARTE is much displeased with FoucuE, the Minister of Police, for not more effeaually repressing the expression of public opinion with respea to Spain, which has become. sufficiently loud to g ive uneasiness and mortification to NAroLEoN, and the more so, as the Parisians do not scruple to testify their joy at his failures in Spain. FeUCHE'S answer was laconic--" What more can Ido ? The prisons are full." The following Extra& of a Letter from an Officer with the army in Portugal, tli(,:gh not of a very re cent date, contains some interesting particulars : " JULY '26..—Vv'e are now off a pace called Mon dego, and can see the hills crowded with soldiers — of what nation we cannot tell, but suspe& them to be Portuguese, as the colours of that country aro flying on the ramparts. Yesterday we spoke the Flora transport, which informed us that a battle was fought no longer ago than last Friday, between the Portuguese and French, and that the latter had lost 800 men : credit is given to this report. ' " A report has just arrived on board, that we shall land here instead of Lisbon ; and ;hat we.shall march up the country to the capital, a distance of 100 miles. I do not think you would like to take the march we have in view, for every Officer is obliged to 'carry his own baggage on his back, consisting of one shirt, one pair of stockings, one pair of drawers, and a handkerchief, besides proviions, which will not be trifling, as I understand General JuxoT has taken pretty good care to provide for bin - is:tit and his army. Anchored at one, and. expea every hour to land. There are 8000 men on shore ready to join ; so that we shall be a pretty formidable force against any army the French may think proper to bring into the field. It is reported that General JUNOT, on earing of our being on the Coast, consented to leave Lisbon if the Portuguese would permit him to return home through Spain. This was immediately re je6ted.—We are all hurry and bustle on board. — The men are in excellent spirits. We have on our left a most beautiful village, called Buarcos, where we expe6t to quarter for a day. The Commodore and Commander in Chief are on shore." The Emperor of Monocco, as we some time ago stated, is very well disposed towards this Country, and very desirous of taking an active part in b- Your of the Spaniards against France.—He has a very large army at his command, and is not at present at war against any Christian PoWer, hut is by no means unwilling to declare against Fraus:e, if a pro per opportunity shontd occur.—A commercial in tercourse between Spain ano Morocco would be productive of great advantages to the latter, and this is the chief reason of the Emperor's inclination to take part with the former. Most of his subjects on the coast understand the Spanish language. Some Agents from the Emperor are now • here, with a view to this point, and we have every reason to rely upon his good-will towards this Country, which he has recently manifested by ample supplies to Gi -I.3r?,ltar.—One of BuoNAPARTE's objects in attempt ing the subje&ion of Spain was certainly to get, if possible, ponession of Gibraltar; though we trust, that had he been successful in that attempt, he would have been eiftelnally disappointed in the other. SIR JOHN PIERS.—The Dublin Evening Post of last Thursday, has the following paragraph :—" We -are authorized to contradit a paragraph which ap peared in tLe London Papers of Friday, respe&ing the death of Sir JOHN Plans, in the Isle of Man, under circumstances truly shocking. We under -stand, the Captain of an Isle of Mau vessel, who arrived yesterday morning, states, that he saw Sir JOll'N PIERS; on Monday last, in good health, in the island, and that the whole account must have been a fabrication." We are sorry to find that the accident which hap pened to Mr. CLINE, of the Admiralty, was more serious than we represented. His collar-bone was broken, and he was very severely bruised by the till. SECOND EDITION. SUN-OFFICE, HALF PAST TWO OCLOOK, P. .V • In our First Edition we stated that a Telegraphic Dispatch had been received at the Admiralty an- touncina the liberation of sever 3/ thousand, of he Spanlsh Troops that were in Denmark. We have now the satisfaetion to add, that Lieute- naut HITCHINS has just arrived at the Admiralty, with Dispatches from Admiral KEATS, which contain the gratifying intelligence that TEN THOUSAND of the Spanish Troops that were in Filen, Langeland, Laaland, and Jutland, under the command of the Marquis D$ ROMANA, bare rescued themselves from the French and Danish poke, and have been conveyed by the British fleet to Langeland, with all their arms, artillery, &c. They have taker' possession of the Island of Lsngeland, and are to remit! there until they can be removed to their own country. The Danes bare disarmed fire thousand Spaniards that were in Zealand. The Spanish 'Troops that thus nobly liberated themselves con- asst of the flower of the Army ; they had re- cetved full information of the atrocities which i3crorrAPAate bas committed in Spain, and burn with ardout to join the ranks of their gallant Court- trymen. NAVAL NEWS. PORTSXOUTII, AUG. t2.—Arrived this day Mlle , Beagle Sloop of War, with a convoy from the , ' Downs. :• Sailed the Padargus Sloop-brig, with a General Officer for Spain ; Albicore Sloop of War, for the Westward ; and La Fleche Sloop of War, with a Convoy, for Plymouth. SHEERNESS, AUG. 21.—Sailed the Safeguard Gun-brig, Lieut. FIELD, for the North Sea. Came down from the Tower the Deptford Tender, Lieut. ANTamsi, with volunteers. and imprest men, for the Fleet ; also thirty-six French prisoners of war, brought home in the India Fleet, and part of those captured in the Blonde French Privateer, of 32 guns, which made a number of captures in those seas. They are put on board the Tilii:tcheisea, to wait a passage to the prison-ships at Gillingham. • Came out of Dock this day the Arethusa Frigate, Capt. BRISBANE. Arrived the Aundance Store-ship from the Downs, and sailed for the River, and upwards of thirty Sail of West Indiarnen passed for the River. AUG. 22.—The Castor Frigate, which has under gone a thorough repair on the Slip, was attempted to be launched, but unfortunately stoppel a b ou t half way on the slip, and obliged to be shared up to wait another tide. His Majesty's Schooner Subtle, Li eu t. C . rt arrived at Plymouth on Thursday from the West Indies, bringing Mr. H. F. "SURMISE, Sir A. COCR- R AN E.'S Flag-Lieutenant, passenger, charged with in tercepted Dispatches to the Admiralty. These pitte patches were intended for the Colonies, on the' • signation of the Crown of Spain by the late King, . and were forwarded from Bayonne by BUONA'• PARTE in person, who was upon the beach expe diting the departure of the Vella'. As. they are-said to contain BUONAPARTE'S regulations with roped to the future state of those Colonies, and the names of those persons who are friendly to the interests of France, they are supposed to be of importance.— Originals, as well as those which are duplicates, were forwarded by the same Vessel. The latter were left at Cayenne, and the Vessel, in proceeding with the former for Martinique, was captured, off Barba• does by the Belletie, Capt. SAUNDERS, after having thrown her Dispatches overboard.. The duplicates were discovered on board a French Cartel, which arrived at Barbadoes from Cayenne, under suspicious . circumstances, and, as was afterwards confessed, was sent with the intention of conveying the Packet to G6adalotipe, tinder cover of a Flag of Truce.—M. Bouviorr, the Officer of the Flag, and the Master of the Vessel, has been sent home by Sir A. COCH RANE, for having acted •in a double capacity.—The Flying Fish Schooner arrived at Barbadoes on the sth of Joie, charged with Dispatches from Lord CowNoWoon, containing a full account of the re cent transaaions in Spain, and conveying a Spanish Officer, with Dispatches from the Junta to those Co.. Ionies.—LerdCOLLINGWOOD mentions the'departure of the Rapid from Bayonne, and requests Sir A. CocuRANE will endeavour to intercept her, or to counteraht the effea Of, the Dispatches she was the bearer of.—On the arrival of the Flying Fish, Sir A. COCHRANE immediately a&ed on the intelligence had received ; offensive operations were suspended against the Spanish Flag; the Spanish Prisoners were liberated; and the Acosta was immediately ordered to the Caraccas, with every,n;cessary corn-, inunication for the Spanish Governors on the C.,ast; The Flying Fish was ordered to Porto Rico and Jamaica.—A French Corvette sailed from Cayenne about the same time with the two Vessels that were de,tined fur Martinique arid Guadalonpe, and was Supposed to have been ordered for Cnmatta : on. calculation, the Acasta would arrive two or three days before her at that place, and of comae coon : teraa any ill effekt that may have been precluded by the information she carried. . , M RICA. IC! NGSTON, JULY 25.—The Aeon Brig, of ; 3 guns, Captain Titansu, arrived on Tuesday from a cruize, with the Ship Henrietta, COULTER, from Port -aye; Prince, bound to Liverpool, coffee, detained on the Ist instant, off Cape Nicholas Mule. The'.:4l;lnn accompanied the Fleet which sailed from Piirt4toyal on the 18th May under convoy of the Spariow Brig,. of 18 guns, Captain BURT, saw them ,clear of the Gulph, and left them on the igth ult. in lat. 98. N. numbering 22 sail. On the 17th, iti the Gulph, the Avon spoke the Fire-Fly Brig, of ,guns, Lieutenant BOYD, bound on a ertti7e off the. Havannab. The Fire-Fly bad convoyed the Princess Amelia Packet to a certain latitude, and left her, all well, with a fair wind. On the loth the Aron fell . in with the Elk Brig, of 16 guns, Capt. COGFIL&N, and_ was informed that she was going to cruize off the Havannah, in consequence of information which Captain C. bad received at New-Providence of a very film Spanish Merchant-Ship s of 2fi guns, manned with upwards of 100 men, and having specie and a valuable cargo on board, being nearly ready to sail from thence for Cadiz. Capt. C. had also learnt that the Captain of the Spanish Ship had sent bhp a message, declaring that lie would put 10 sea in a few days and give hitn, battle, as he had be fore beaten off an English Frigate. On the 17th ult. about two o'clock in the morn ing, the Avon. Brig was struck by lightning, by which her main-mast was much splintered, and several of her crew were knocked down, but none received any injury : She experienced very bad weather during the greatest part of the time she was at sea. We have received several numbers of the Morbid Gazette; but as they are of a date prior to the flight - of JOSEPH BUONAPARTE, that great and extraor dinary event has robbed them of the interest they otherwise might have had. The following is the substance of them in brief : " On the 22d and 23d of July, King JOSEPH re ceived the Chiefs of the Palace, the Grandees of Spain, the Presidents and Governors of the Court. , cila,..and Persons of every Class, who had the ho n Our to present themselves to him. He in like man 'ner'received the French and Spanish Generals and .tOfficers. He spoke in so condescending a manner, as to gain the affections of all who approached him. He afterwards read the dispatches of his Ministers, and gave audience on State Affairs.. The Procla mation of his Majesty, in the noble and crowned city of Madrid, and in the city of Toledo, was to take place on the 25th July ; and the ceremony was af terwards to be performed in the other towns of the kingdom. Religious ceremonies were to follow. Il luminations for three nights were ordered on the public entry. The Royal Council of Castile had or dered the new Constitution to be circulated through the country, recommending it to general adoption, with a panegyric on the moderation of the new King, who had waved his universal right over the public revenues, by making the diktioCtion be tween the revenue of the Crown and the revenue of the State. " On the 24th similar audiences were given.-- The Supreme Council of the Indies took the consti . tutional oath of fidelity ; and the President of ttigC Council, the Marquis of BAJAMAU, pronounced "al elegant harangue on the occasion, adverting to the indubitable signs of affeEtion which the whole nil ; tion shewed for his MansTY's person. He en larged on the advantages that Spain enjoyed by the accession of the new Sovereign, in p r eserving their independence, without making the cessions that France before required, in the cession of the country from the Ebro to the Pyrennees, together with the free commerce of the Indies, which would hence forth be more beneficial to Spain, inasmuch as they , would coiled the fruits of it without any expence. His Majesty in his answer explained the importance of.obtaining by his beneficent intervention the ter m- ,ination of the present convulsions, with the BdVlint" age of being relieved from the burthen of maintain ing foreign troops, and that of the establishment of the new Constitution, which promised so muck good to the nation. His Majesty then adverted to the pleasure which the enemies of the Continent .would take in the present discord, and the weakness the State would fall into in consequence, deriving thence a hope that they should be ~tbie to sL : parate the Indies from, Spain. He therefore recommended to tine Council to redouble its exertions t , preservp the union of all the Spanish possessions, European, American, and Asiatic. Those who heard' the dis course were struck with admiration of eloquence, the suavity of his manner, the force of hft reasoning, the extent of his knowledge and under , standing, and his majestic attitudeS. It were to 'lit wished that the whole nation had had the pleasnrg and advantage of being present on •the occasien.— After the audience his Majesty held a Council-with his Ministers, which lasted till seven in the evening, when his Majesty went in his carriage to „Suet' tero, where he dined and retnameo in good healih• The Magistrates of Madrid took infinite pains . 0 contradi6t a report, for some days current, th a t gates of the city were to be shut, and ail the yo'ung men taken away to carry arms. His Majesty g avz assurances, that, far frotn thinking of a conscrtotion , he rejoiced that the close conuettion with th, great military power of France rendered' it not necessary to have any military force but that of the . present ve- . teran army, and his Majesty looked forward to the time, when, secure in the affections .of eh; subiet , he would require no further proteetion. The AS' sembly of Magistrates then, instrueted.the eeople to disregard all the insinuations of tlitut:..svho .Eougnt. to disturb them, and to confide in the wisdom and he- Mficence of the Government." 'Such is the false colouring which the Enemy have _.given to an occurrence that was almost immeLliately succeeded by the inglorious flight of the Usurper, to avoid the vengeance of an insulted and indignant people. • ''The British Ships in the river of Calcutta baye calitured Danish property to the amount of li9nl sterling; and the Russell, 74, Capta Z- 7 r FfiLD, has taken a Danish Ship, itti oo - bf; board amounting to 800,0001. Admiral L•: 1 -; safely arrived in India. There was a sparring exhibition yesterday .1i Fives Court, St. Martin's-street; 1.,-icester-ti - i , V , the benefit of fern Belcher and Piitone. Th e c ''' l was tbronged with amateurs. grr"M •